Improvement in horse-powers



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Il@ venam- UNITEDv STATES' PATENT OEEICE.

JAMES N. PEAsE, or 'HARMNY7 NEW YORK,

i .Specification forning part of Letters'Patent No. 36.477', dated September 16, 18612'.

'To all whom-'it may c bricerm f l Be it known 'that T, JA'MES N. Prusia', of Harmony, in' thecountyof Chautauqua and l State of New York, have invented anew and Improved Horse-Power; and I do hereby declarethat the followingl is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawings,- rn'akinga- .part'of this specification, in which\ v' ,""Figure l isaside view of myin'vention. Fig; 2 is a pla-n ortop'view'of the-saaie.'z Similar Vletters of reference. indicate corresponding parts in' the two ligures.,. 'Theobjcct'of thisinvcntionisito. obtain a horse-'power of simple construction, which vmay be constructed at a small-expense and stillbe strong and durable, and arranged in suoha'manneras to transmit-the power of the an'ial to' the machinery to be driven withbut little'loss by friction. To'jthis end the invention consistsin the r'nnployment or use otfa stationary wheel, `toothed or `provided with sunken gear and -us'ed'in connection with a radial traveling T"frame, in which apiniou is' placed that gears into the stationary' wheel, motion being communicated from the pinion to theshaft from which the power is taken by means of'pulleys i and a belt or rope, all arranged as hereinafterfully' shown and described? fra enable thtseslgiued in the aft to muy understand and construct myinve'ntioml will proeeedto describeit.

Arepresents a stationary wheel; which is firmly bolted te a horizontal fram-ing, B, con'- strncted in any-proper way. This wheel Ais provide'dfat its ;periphery with a sunken gear, or, in ether words', with recesses an to receive` 4the teeth of the pinionC, or, rather, twopin-' ions, C C', hereinafter described The rel'ceases aa are in two rows, 4one reir, a, being above the other, a,"the recesses of one row being in li'ne with-the centers ofthe spaces be- 1' tween the other, as shown clearly-in Fig: 1.

AD is au upright shaft, which passes through a support or vertical tube, E, which is at the centergo'f the' stationary wheel A. This shaft- `:1) has a pulley, F, on its lower end and apul- ,ley, G, von its upper end,andl 'on upperl r'part ofthe shaft D the inner end 'ojf .a1-iframe, IH, is tted loosely and allowed' to'tt'lr'nVl freely, @The frame H may bei'constructedftwofbars,

bb', having a slightly-obliqueposition relatively with' each other,- as. shown in Fig. 2,

said bars being connected n-eartheir outerends' by traverse-bars c c, and connected at their inner ends by a traverse band, the latter being thepart of the frame H which is fitted on the upper end of the shaftD. In-the. outer traverse-bar, c, there is fitted a vertical shaft, I, having a pulley', J, upon it, around` which and' the :pulley G on the upper part of shaft D .a ropeor belt, K, passesi4 On the shaft I there 'are also placed two pinions, of equaldiameteig'and having'such a relative position with each other that the teeth ofone.

pinion will be inline with the centers of the 5 spacesv between the teeth ofthe other, the teeth of the two .wheels thereby coinciding with the recesses or sunken geara a `in therperiphery .of the stationary'wheel A. Y

The bar b of the frame vlELis longer -than its fellow, b, suciently so to form A a; sweep4 to vwhich the draft-animal is attached, (see Fig. 2,) and' thezframe E, near its outer part, is provided with rollers orsmall wheels e e', which' rest upon the upper surface of the fri'm vof the stationary wheel A and 'admit of said frame traveling around' upon the-Wheel A with but'l little friction.

The operation is as fquows: rhe draft-.anti inal travels around the wheel A 'and rotates theframe H, or turns it around on said wheel, 2

and thereby gives a rotary motion to shafty I,

in consequence ofthe pinious C C meshing'- into the sunken gear a a', and motion iscoxninuuicated to the shaft D from shaft I by the cord orlbelt K. The power is taken froni the' Vpulley Fat the lower vvend of the shaft D bya;

belt when a rotary motion -is required, butl if a reciprocating'liiotion is required a pitman, L,

may beattachedto pulley F at' any suitable distance from its center. l (See Fig. 2.)

Bythisarraugement it is believed that several advantages are obtained over the ordi-- nary horse-powers of this kind in use.

First. The rrangementis extremely simple and admits of v'being constructed ata'small cost.V l A Second. There are but fewmoviug or work- 'ing parts, and hence the power of the animal is transmitted to the shaft from which the power is taken with but little lossbyfrictiom f ,.Third, The wear andte'ar of the machine are extremely slight, and there nre no parts liable .1. The'stntionnry wheel A, in combination' vsume' diameter-that is to say', not' the sume number of teeth of as .large a size as could be' i s Z i l 'luay be usedinstead of the sunken g'ear aa'; butlthe principle'would be the same inV either jcase, the recessesfbeing equivalent to teethv or to get out of repnir or become deranged by use. with the radial traveling frame 1I, .provided The double pinionstC G prevent auy'unneeeswith thevertieal shaft I, which is connected y sary play or backlash and insure uneasy hy gearing with vthe wheel A, so :is to commuor smooth working movement of the running niente, by thetraveliug of frame II, motion parts, and also admit of comparatively large to the central shufrfDmy the rope or belt K, und consequently strong teeth being employed substantiallyas and for the purpose set forth. on a pinion of small diameter, as the same 2.` The double sunken geur a a', or equivanumh'er of teeth on the two pinions eonibinei lent teeth or cogs, inthe periphery of the wheel could not -he used on n single pinion of the A, in combination with the double `pinion() C on shaft In, when said parts are :irrnnged as shown, and used in eonneetion with the travel ing frame H and eeuiral shaft. D, @sand for the `purpose specified.

`used on'the'double pinion. f y It will of" course be seen that; teeth or eogs JAMES N. PEAsn.

Witnesses: l

ISAAC N. Ewen,.- ,JOHN WIL'rsE.

coge. v i l .k Having thus described my invention, what I 'claim as new, and desire to secure by lLetters 

